In the aftermath of the Oscars, the focus was on the two female winners of the evening — Jennifer Lawrence and Anne Hathaway. Everyone pretty much forgot about the dudes, right? Well, the responses towards the two couldn’t be more different, as everyone loved Jennifer for tripping her way up the stairs and forgetting to thank Harvey Weinstein, and everyone attacked Anne Hathaway for giving an (obviously) carefully rehearsed speech and basically conducting the most annoying Oscar campaign in recent years. I agree with Kaiser that Anne wasn’t really that bad during her campaign, but she was just everywhere at once and on the cover of every magazine with a Taylor Swift-esque feigned innocence and a fake little girl voice in every interview.

Somehow, JLaw managed to also participate in a rather aggressive campaign, yet one was left with the feeling that she’d be a great drinking companion. Collectively, we wanted more from JLaw, and we wanted Anne to take an extended break out of the spotlight. Once the awards were handed out and the afterglow faded, Ann was left crying nonstop because of the backlash, and JLaw immediately hopped on an airplane to Hawaii where she smoked some doobs. These two represent polar opposites of the Hollywood spectrum, and NYMag put together a great piece on why people feel so differently about Anne and JLaw.

Even though Jennifer is now ping-ponging between reshoots for Catching Fire and playing Christian Bale’s wife in Abscam, she’s still got some previous interviews that are floating to the surface. In a talk with Fabulous mag (via Us Weekly), Jennifer discusses her own personality in front of the media. She basically calls herself a rabid chihuahua who has now idea what she’s talking about until after the fact. Again, she comes off pretty cute and likeable even while claiming that she’s a mess:

Jennifer Lawrence’s candid interviews have earned her more than a few fans, famous and not, who say her unfiltered sense of humor and laid-back personality are a refreshing change from the Hollywood norm. But the actress insists that her seemingly carefree demeanor is actually the opposite, and that she’s a ball of nerves whenever she’s the center of attention at an awards ceremony or movie premiere. The only place she feels she’s really herself, she says, is when she’s playing someone else.

“I’m afraid I’m going to go my whole life being scared like a chihuahua,” she admits in the new issue of the U.K.’s Fabulous magazine. “It’s not my comfort zone. Making movies is where I belong. I shouldn’t be heard just talking. So, when I’m doing movies, I’m really happy. That’s where I’m comfortable, that’s my home. When you put me on a red carpet or on a stage, I turn into chihuahua Jennifer.”

“Chihuahua Jennifer” is apparently a talker. “I have no control over what comes out of my mouth,” the Silver Linings Playbook star says of the candor everyone loves so much. “I would probably turn into a mute if I read what I said.”

That delicate balance of unguardedness and self-awareness is part of what keeps the 22-year-old Oscar winner — who split from British actor Nicholas Hoult in January — grounded. The other part is her family and non-famous friends. “Definitely my family is not the kind of family that would ever let me turn into an a–hole or anything like that, so I am fortunate to have them,” she tells Fabulous.

“I don’t ever walk around feeling famous, I walk around feeling the exact same way I have walked around my entire life, but it’s not until I talk to somebody and see in their eyes that I’m different. It makes me feel weird,” she says. “A lot of things that I didn’t even think could ever be possible for me have happened, all in a year. It’s been overwhelming, but in a wonderful way.”

If it were almost any other female actress claiming to still feel like a normal person despite evidence to the contrary, we’d all be rolling our eyes, right? When it comes out of the mouth of JLaw though, it’s very easy to believe she honestly feels that way. I mean, it’s hard to fake the way she behaved in that famous Jack Nicholson video. She’s just a fun girl and talented actress, and somehow the two states are not mutually exclusive. Clearly, she’s still telling the same fart jokes that she did before she was famous. Whereas I get the feeling that poor Anne doesn’t fart at all, which could be part of the problem.

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She is so absolutely lovely and so very talented too. I can’t wait to see what’s next with her. I have a feeling she will be around for a very long time. She has the best speaking voice, there is just something cool about it. Well done Jennifer!

And I think too that she’s here to stay. She just needs to balance presence and absence (too much in our face is never a good idea) and she needs to stay grounded (which is not easy in this environment – they all believe the hype some day). I really hope she stays the way she is right now.

Yeah. I’m still not buying what’s being sold. Her pr machine is commendable, she is just as ‘controlled’ and ‘manufactured’ as any other actress, they just know that the ‘normies’ like her taking about burping, farting, and how ‘fat’ she is when she’s thin.
No. Just no with her.

She doesn’t call herself fat. She says she knows she’s thin by normal standards but by Hollywood standards she’s almost “obese”. She criticized the ridiculous standards and said if that makes her “fat” then she’s fine with it. I hate how cynical some people are. It’s wholly impossible that there could be one nice, normal, funny celebrity out there right? It’s all an act!

She isn’t even big by Hollywood standards. Her measurements are reported as a 26 inch waist with 36 inch hips at 5 9. Kate Beckinsale is 5 8, reported as 24 35. Strikingly similar. Even in Hollywood that’s small. I’m cynical and her appeal isn’t genuine to me, just a shtick to be like ‘hollywood sure is crazy, isn’t it, folks?’ She could be nice, but it doesn’t mean she doesn’t have a hyper controlled image for mass appeal. Because she does.

My feelings exactly : Anne came off as fake. Just look at the header pic, at how different they seem even though they’re both standing there and smiling. It’s like when someone tries to ACT cool versus someone who just IS cool…it’s very easy to spot the phony.

I’m not an Anne Hater – I think she’s also a very good actress – but she seriously needs to get over herself and go away for a while. JLaw, however, I adore.

I like her like this. Not in the publicity machine, not overhyped acting. She’s a talented girl but not so much that she’s the most talented actress in the world or her generation. She has a long way to go. She’s got a good family and a good sense of self and a sweet personality.

She’s from Louisville, KY, where I live. She and my daughter used to pal around before she left to try acting. I remember her at my house, driving her and my daughter around, etc. She seemed more “worldly” than my daughter and older than her years. Story is that she accidentally peed on my floor during an overnight, but that is according to my daughter.

“… but it’s not until I talk to somebody and see in their eyes that I’m different.”

That’s what makes me like her. She’s part of the Hollywood machinery now, of course, but she hasn’t gotten so far up her own ass that she’s lost that self-awareness and perspective. Well, for now, at least.

Exactly! I have nothing against her (don’t LOVE her, don’t HATE her, I just like her), but the fact that everything I read tells me that she’s adorable, perfect, funny and how I’m supposed to love her for that… this whole adoration seems just too much for me. I get it in Meryl’s case, though I keep expecting that this adoration will turn to hatred and the Internet will explode the minute she tells/does sth. that will not be in line with the whole “laid-back, funny chick” thing. The poor thing won’t even know what hit her…

She is gorgeous, and in comparison to Hathaway seems to be truly fun and irreverent. My image of her was cemented when I saw a picture of her leaping into her family’s arms after her Oscar win. The mutual love and pride seemed very genuine.

Every time I see JLaw decked out in designer gowns on the red carpet with that frozen smile on her face, I feel like it’s eerily reminiscent of the Hunger Games- Katniss being paraded around in crazy costumes and ordered to smile.

I like Jen. I just wish the media would stop shoving her down my throat. Give her space and time to grow on the public. I like Anne also. I honestly do feel sorry for her. More than that, I think the media is trying too hard to bring out the negative in her IMO.

Hopefully she’ll take a break a some point. Feels like an actress who gets over-exposed will be attacked. That’s where Hathaway is at now. I mean, she seems like a nice person who tries very hard, and people are tearing her a new one over it. Since when is putting effort into something that bad.

She reminds of the mean girls at school who constantly self deprecate so others can just tell them they are great. She has a massive ego in my opinion and people are getting the wool pulled over their eyes.

This question should have been asked about Chris Brown, OJ Simpson, Vincent Heyward, the NYPD cops who raped the fashion executive or any of the Congressmen who voted against the Lilly Ledbetter Act…real people who have shown a hatred, even if momentary, towards women with extraordinary vigor, not some unexceptional actress who happens to be wealthier, sexier, and more social than most of you. If women feel this way they deserve all the catcalls, unequal pay, spousal abuse and other patriarchal dismissals they get. Sick of stupid pronouncements like this; and the woman who wrote this needs to be slapped by another woman with intelligence.

Damn! She has the most perfect little figure on her! I really like her as well because she always says something unexpected and hilarious. I get the feeling that her publicists are always gritting their teeth and working overtime for her because of what she says but it’s refreshing.

I think a true test of who she is, would be when she gets on a stage with a partner like James Franco, at an event like the Oscars. Until now she’s had everyone’s support and it’s normal she should enjoy it, she’s young, talented and beautiful.
After seeing The Hunger Games and The Playbooks, I can’t say I was impressed, but maybe it’s just a matter of personal tastes.